From the TOS President
Paula Bontempi
I am just home from the triennial International Ocean Colour Science Meeting in Germany… During the conference I began to wonder about the return on investment of global research and development.
TOS ACTIVITIES AT
OSM26
As many of us begin planning our schedule for the Ocean Sciences Meeting in February, we would like to bring your attention to several TOS-related activities.
Meet the new
TOS Council Members
Three new TOS Councilors will begin their terms on January 1, 2026: Applied Technology Councilor Alana Sherman, Chemical Oceanography Councilor Phoebe Lam, and JEDI Councilor Onjalé Scott Price.
Call for Papers
UN Ocean Decade
AGU, ASLO, and TOS are soliciting papers that highlight and expand on the UN Ocean Decade’s 10 Challenges. This collection will serve as a resource for shared understanding and informing policy decisions.
Renew Your
TOS Membership
Renewals are due by December 31, 2025. Please contact Jenny Ramarui if you have any questions about your membership status.
MAKE CONNECTIONS
Upcoming Events
Discover the latest findings across diverse fields, from marine ecosystems to climate change impacts. Connect with peers, leading experts, and organizations dedicated to ocean sustainability. Engage with 100+ scientific organizations and ocean-focused companies through exhibitions, partnerships, and sponsorships.
Join us for a week of insight, collaboration, and connection. This event brings together a diverse ocean optics community, including oceanographers, limnologists, optical engineers, Earth observation scientists, resource managers, and policy professionals from across the globe, all united by a shared passion for optics in aquatic environments.
This compelling webinar series was designed to demystify the “hidden curriculum” in marine science—important information that is crucial for career development, but rarely taught in the classroom. The live webinar series is complete but you can watch recorded webinars and find useful resources on the webinar series page.
Student and Early Career
News and Resources
STUDENT HIGHLIGHT
Hop on Instragram and meet Moronke Harris, elected Student Councilor on the TOS Council.
GRAD STUDENT/EARLY CAREER RESOURCES
Visit TOS’s Grad Student/Early Career Resources page where you will find graduate student and early career job and fellowship links, shiptime opportunities, and helpful articles and websites…
CAREER PROFILES: OPTIONS AND INSIGHTS
View nearly 100 career profiles of ocean scientists with careers outside of academia. These profiles are intended to advise ocean sciences graduate students about career options other than teaching and/or research in a university setting…
NAVIGATING GRAD SCHOOL
Don’t miss Oceanography magazine’s popular articles providing guidance on navigating grad school:
UNDERGRAD STUDENT RESOURCES
Visit TOS’s Undergrad Student Resources page for lists of opportunities and recommended reading…
Background photo credit: Lewis Burnett/Ocean Image Bank
Featured Resources
Disseminating Knowledge of Oceanography and Its Application
September 2025 Oceanography Issue
This issue includes articles on oceanography and intelligent robots, freshwater-driven AMOC changes, perspectives on marine CO2 removal, the Kuroshio Current nutrient footprint, and more.
June 2025 Oceanography Issue
The flipbook version of the June issue includes a cover video of black smoker chimney spire, a photo slideshow within the Mihály et al. article, and animations in the Schönau et al. article.
Frontiers in Ocean Observing: Marine Protected Areas, Western Boundary Currents, and the Deep Sea
We hope that you enjoy this third and final Oceanography supplement in the Frontiers in Ocean Observing series and share it widely.
A Vision for Capacity Sharing in the Ocean Sciences
This special issue of Oceanography focuses on the global benefits of sustained capacity sharing in ocean science.
NISKINe
This special issue of Oceanography focuses on NISKINe: The Near-Inertial Shear and Kinetic Energy in the North Atlantic Experiment.
September 2024 Issue
This issue of Oceanography features articles on machine learning in ocean remote sensing, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Gulf of Maine cold wave, metocean data in support of offshore wind energy, and more…
Twenty Years of GEOTRACES
This special issue of Oceanography focuses on GEOTRACES: An International Study of the Marine Biogeochemical Cycles of Trace Elements and Isotopes.
Sea Grant: Science Serving America’s Coastlines and People
This special issue of Oceanography details the National Sea Grant College Program’s contributions to enhancing the use and conservation of US coastal, marine, and Great Lakes resources.
DIY Oceanography
Presenting homemade sensors or instruments that you can build, or build upon.
Career Profiles
Providing advice to ocean sciences graduate students about career options outside of the university setting.
NEWS
Oceanography is an open access journal featuring peer-reviewed articles that chronicle all aspects of ocean science and its applications.
Featured Articles
How Do Tides Affect Underwater Acoustic Propagation? A Collaborative Approach to Improve Internal Wave Modeling
By M.C. Schönau et al.
Examining how internal wave energy moves through numerical simulations, how this energy alters the ocean state and sound speed, and how machine learning could aid the modeling of these impacts…
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar: A New Tool for Seafloor Characterization
By J.W. Jamieson et al.
Discussing extending the potential applications of interferometric synthetic aperture sonar to habitat classification, environmental monitoring, and seafloor geological characterization…
The PIXIE: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Multichannel In Situ Fluorometer Applied To Dye-Tracing in Halifax Harbor
By K. Park et al.
Introducing the PIXIE, intended to fill the gap between between the advantages provided by open-source in situ sensors and the performance provided by industrial in situ fluorometers…
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